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Luis Ramirez
Professor Batty
English 28
10 December 2017
Leaving ones hometown is difficult enough. Leaving the country is even harder. Starting
over is always difficult, and thats exactly what families have to do when they immigrate
to somewhere new. Families immigrating have to deal with adjusting to foreign cultures,
and learning a new language. Families immigrating might also have to deal with some
made fun of at school for not knowing the language and being different. Never the less,
some people may argue that immigrating to a new country can have a negative effect on
the family as a whole, there are still many advantages and ways that immigrating to a
Moving to a new country has its benefits even though it might be challenging at
times. For example emigrating from a country allows one to learn a new language and
become bilingual. The rate of immigration is increasing in the United States. According
to Mary Tamer from The Harvard Graduate School Of Education states When schools
opened this fall, Education Week noted a key demographic milestone for the first
time, children of color would outnumber non-Hispanic whites in the nations public
classrooms. While minorities are becoming the majority learning more than one
language is beneficial because it allows for better job opportunities in the future. Another
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benefit families can take advantage of when they immigrate is receiving a better
education. In most third world countries parents do not have enough money to send their
children to school. Instead of getting an education, the children begin working at a young
age. In the United States child labor is not an option. There for the kids of undocumented
parents get sent to school. According to The Harvard Graduate School Of Education
With the Pew Research Center projecting that, by 2050, more than one-third of the
children of at least one parent who is an immigrant, Associate Professor Natasha Kumar
Warikoo says that schools will need to rethink classroom strategies, family engagement
practices, and how to best navigate cultural divides. Ultimately what is being said in the
quote helps prove that immigrating to a new country allows the kids to receive better
education opportunities.
Receiving better education can help immigrant kids or kids of immigrant parents
go to college and get a career easier than they would in their native country. Job
work permits and protection from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program, or DACA, since its creation five years ago. What is being said here is
although immigrants might struggle to get jobs, there are ways of getting work permits if
Although there are many benefits when it comes to immigrating to a new country,
there are also some negative effects a family can face when coming to a new country. For
example one negative effect families can go through is dealing with discrimination. There
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are a lot of people who dis like immigrants in the United States and therefore will
sometimes harass them. In the book How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia
Alvarez the author says la Bruja had stopped her mother and the girls in the lobby and
spat out that ugly word the kids at school sometimes used: Spics! Go back to where you
came from! Alvarez (171). The author helps provide examples of how immigrants get
harassed just because they are trying to better their life in a new country. Being in a new
country and having people yell racial slurs can really hurt the ones feelings and make
Undocumented families most of the times do not get high paying jobs so they are
forced to live in poor areas. Living in a poor area can affect the family in a lot of ways.
Fro example The Harvard Graduate School Of Education explains Children face barriers
deportation, and more, while undocumented youth themselves face increasing barriers to
social mobility as they enter adolescence and hope to obtain drivers licenses, afterschool
work, and financial aid for college. Even when children themselves are unaware of their
growing up in poor areas provides more of an obstacle for immigrant families. One
example given in the quote that can really tear families apart is fear of deportation
Families dont even have peace of mind, they always have to be cautious of what they are
language and dealing with adjusting to a new countries customs, or dealing with
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discrimination and raising a family in a poor area. There is still ways in which a family
can benefit from immigrating to a new country. For example the children of immigrants
can receive better education and in the long run it can lead to the kids getting better jobs
and careers than they would be able to obtain back in their native countries. The positives
Works Cited
Lpez, Gustavo, and Jens Manuel Krogstad. Key Facts about Unauthorized
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Algonquin Books, 2013.